AFP says new encryption laws have helped coerce suspects into unlocking devices

Australian federal police says threat of tougher penalties successfully used in drug and child exploitation investigations

Police have already used the threat of higher penalties contained in encryption legislation to coerce criminal suspects to unlock digital devices such as phones.

Although the home affairs department is still consulting with industry on how to implement new powers to build backdoors into devices, the doubling of penalties for people refusing to unlock their own devices is already having an effect, the Australian federal police has told a parliamentary inquiry.

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